The blow up of the man-milliner the-thing may best ride the gossamour and yet not fall so light is vanity. [graphic]

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Title: The blow up of the man-milliner the-thing may best ride the gossamour and yet not fall so light is vanity. [graphic]
Creator: Wicksteed, James, engraver
Contributor: Wicksteed, James, publisher.
Published / Created: [16 February 1787]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Feby 16, 1787 by J. Wicksteed, No. 30 Henrietta Strt. Covt. Gard
Description: Title etched below image.
Wicksteed as engraver from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark; loss of text from imprint statement?
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Female costume -- Puffs -- Men milliners -- Altered Biblical quotation: "They are altogether lighter than vanity" from Psalm 62:9.
Mounted to 42 x 31 cm.
Provenance: Old Print Shop; June 1969;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 37.7 x 29 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
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